The Attorney General’s favorite Portland law firm is cleaning up financially. It’s also run afoul of a federal judge.

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Nearly 3,000 Oregonians with disabilities have waited more
than three years for their day in federal court on a potentially
groundbreaking civil rights case.
In a sweeping class
action lawsu
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Measure stems from Kitzhaber scandal.

In the wake of the abrupt resignation of former Gov. John Kitzhaber on Feb. 18, lawmakers and Kitzhaber's successor, Gov. Kate Brown, have introduced a variety of bills aimed at increasing accountability and transparency in government.

Among the many lucrative speeches Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made since resigning as U.S. secretary of state in 2013, few paid better than an April 8, 2014, address Clinton made in Portland to the World Affair...More

Booming economy flows through to schools

A new state revenue forecast released today brings good news for K-12 education—it will add just over $100 million to the $7.255 billion lawmakers budgeted for schools last month.
When lawmakers passed the budget far earlier than normal, they agreed to allocate 40 percent of whatever additional monies the May revenue forecast predicted, because K-12 education gets about 40 percent of ...
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Two Oregon congressmen—divided over free trade—disagree about what a Trans-Pacific deal would mean.

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President Barack Obama jetted to Portland
last week to use the city and the world headquarters of Nike as
backdrops in his push for a sweeping new free-trade agreement with 11
Pacific Rim coun
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There are already runaway costs for a state Capitol remodel that few people know about.

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Peter Courtney usually gets what he wants.
As president of the
Oregon Senate for 12 years, Courtney, 71, has amassed more influence
than almost any other legislator in state history. The Democ
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City Commissioner Nick Fish this morning said he's hired Michael Jordan, the state of Oregon's former chief operating officer, to head the Bureau of Environmental Services.
Fish announced the hire in email to all BES employees.
Jordan replaces Dean Marriott, the longtime BES chief whom Fish More

President pitches free-trade agreement to friendly audience.

The big question about President Barack Obama's visit to Portland is, "Why Nike?"Obama is making a cross-country swing to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation free trade agreement he's pushed for six years as president.
The Oregon stop is a nod to one of his strongest congressional allies, Oregon's senior U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden. Wyden is carrying Obama's water on trade...
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Facing re-election, Hales reverses position.

In an abrupt about-face, Mayor Charlie Hales yesterday told the Port of Portland that he is dropping his support for a proposed $500 million propane terminal to be built by the Canadian company Pembina Pipeline Corporation.That's a death sentence for the massive project, which Hales earlier championed. The Port's director, Bill Wyatt, says that Hales told him Wednesday that Ha...
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Schools get billions from the state every year. That number is growing fast. Here’s why it’s never enough.

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$7.2 billion is a lot of money.
It’s
enough to buy every Oregonian a new MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone 6. Or
enough to buy every school district in Oregon a $36 million, gently used
Gulfstr
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